Bloc Party tap Trevor Horn to produce new album, share “Coming on Strong”

Bloc Party have announced their seventh album, Anatomy Of A Brief Romance , which will be out September 11 via cOnTAGIOUS LTD / Virgin Music Group. They made it with legendary producer Trevor Horn, whose credits include Seal’s first four albums, Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome , ABC’s The Lexicon of Love , Yes’ “Owner of a Lonely Heart,” and Belle & Sebastian’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress . They call it “a record unlike anything we’ve ever done before.”

The title of the album is very literal. “Every lyric you’re hearing on this record was something that actually happened to me,” says Kele Okereke. “I had to tell the story, from start to finish.” It charts the breakup of his longterm relationship with the father of his children, and the start of a new one. “Having this romance, this new thing emerge, it kept me sane, in a very dark time,” he adds.

The first single is the swooping, soaring “Coming on Strong” and you can watch the video, directed by Charlie Pryor, below.

Bloc Party will be on a coheadline UK tour with Interpol this fall, and those dates are below.

Bloc Party – Anatomy Of A Brief Romance

01. 22.01.22

02. Coming On Strong

03. Love Bombs

04. Pigwig

05. Lagoon Blue

06. Muscleworks

07. Clark Kent

08. Worst Birthday Ever

09. Not Your Problem

10. Now We Can’t Be Friends

11. Rotherhithe

12. Stories

13. Moving On

14. Eulogy

Bloc Party and Interpol co-headline UK tour

Fri, November 20 Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena

Sat, November 21 Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena

Mon, November 23 Manchester, UK – Aviva Studios

Tue, November 24 Manchester, UK – Aviva Studios

Thu, November 26 Brighton, UK – Brighton Centre

Fri, November 27 Brighton, UK – Brighton Centre

Sat, November 28 Sheffield, UK – Utilita Arena

Mon, November 30 Dublin, IE – 3Arena

Wed, 2 December Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro

Fri, 4 December London, UK – Olympia

Sat, 5 December London, UK – Olympia

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bloc-party-tap-trevor-horn-to-produce-new-album-share-coming-on-strong/)._